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India, America will call your bluff and raise you jobs

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But while US businesses are heavily reliant on IT services from Indian suppliers, including the use of Indian staff in the US, US companies, including some of the tech giants, have made huge investments in Indian operations, which are vital to their competitiveness and future growth. Trade is a two-way flow and the same goes for trade barriers. If the US implements trade barriers on Indian imports, India can do the same.

At a recent event in India, the country’s commerce minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, is reported to have said: “It is not just that Indian companies are in the US; several big US companies are in India too. They are earning their margins, they are earning their profits, which go to the US economy. It is a situation which is not where only the Indian companies have to face the US executive order. There are many US companies in India which have been doing business for some years now. If this debate has to be expanded, it has to be expanded to include all these aspects. We shall ensure that all these factors are kept in mind.”

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450417535/Globalisation-creates-Catch-22-for-protectionists-India-responds-to-threat-of-US-visa-clampdown

Life is a poker game India, and America is holding all of the cards.

You naively believe that we can’t do the work without the indentured servants that you supply.

Problem is, we were doing the work long before 1990 when India and America conceived the H-1B scam.

So you say you will react to our protectionism by taxing the companies who have built businesses in India from America.

Fine.

Keep their buildings.

But we are going to find a way to force them to work from America or if they want to work from India, we will find a way to make it so that they can not sell their products and, or services in America or Europe or Australia.

Which will leave your people without work because for some reason, your country does not feel the need to provide jobs for your citizens which they desperately need.

And just think.

All your companies like infosys, tata, accenture, ibm india, etc. had to do was to provide jobs for Americans so that they could provide for their families.

Instead, you forced us into extreme poverty by using caste in the selection process which is illegal as hell in America.

American Made

The election of Donald Trump was a story about the forgotten man.

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The election of Donald Trump was a story about the forgotten man. It is the story of the high-skilled American worker being laid off then asked to train his replacement who is in our country on an H-1B visa. It is the story of the American Dream that seems increasingly more difficult to chase because the cards are stacked against the American worker.

Workforce participation in the United States is at a 40-year low. Once, America was seen as the place where anyone could get ahead if you played by the rules, yet too often I hear from my constituents a sense of cynicism and discouragement. We need renewed optimism that our economy is not one where just the cronies and special interests get ahead, but that everyone has an equal shot at the American Dream.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/330534-putting-the-american-worker-first

 

Americans Need NOT Apply, Veterans Homelessness

One more time to see how fast the VA will turn me down this time…

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Americans Need NOT Apply

Jim Sholle, I am all for charging the CEO of Carrier with Treason, Sentencing and carrying out the sentence

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HUNTINGTON, Ind. — These are the Indiana workers whose jobs President Trump didn’t save.

After assembling circuit boards for Carrier furnaces at a factory here for 21 years, Jim Sholle, 56, walked out of the plant for the final time last month. But he still finds himself waking up every morning at 4:30, ready to work the 6 a.m.-to-2 p.m. shift.

“I’m a routine guy, and I’m not boohooing,” he said. “But I feel used up.”

Pat Saylors, 57, is still employed, but her days here are numbered, as they are for more than 700 other blue-collar workers. Production is set to end by late December at the plant, this town’s largest private employer, and each month several dozen of them are being let go.

“I loved my job,” said Ms. Saylors, who earns $17.31 an hour as a materials specialist, readying parts for the workers on the assembly line. She joined the company 40 years ago, when the plant was in tiny Converse, Ind., and then followed her job to Huntington when the factory here opened in 1990.

Ms. Saylors is typical of the factory’s work force, which is mostly female, with an average age around 50. She joined a few months after graduating from high school, as did her daughter Amanda, who is now 33.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/business/economy/indiana-united-technology-factory-layoffs.html?emc=edit_cn_20170424&nl=first-draft&nlid=57182455&te=1

Americans Need NOT Apply

Snap-On, why are you hiring non-immigrant guest workers when Americans are available to do the work in America?

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Shame, Shame, Shame as Gomer Pyle used to say.

The tool manufacturer, based in Kenosha, Wis., sought H-1B visas for two tech workers in 2016 — a computer programmer and a computer systems analyst who were to work out of San Jose.

Snap-on said it would pay the computer programmer $75,000 a year, according to the application filed with the Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification. That salary falls well below the average wage of $94,000 for a computer programmer in Santa Clara County, according to a Labor Department wage database.

What Snap-on is doing is perfectly legal — and it illustrates a key problem critics, including Trump himself, have with the H-1B visa program: the legal minimum companies must pay H-1B workers, known as the “local prevailing wage,” are set at levels well below the average of what most workers in similar positions in the United States earn. Under the program, the minimum wage for a computer programmer in Santa Clara County is $52,000.

Companies say they use the H-1B program to bring top foreign workers to U.S. jobs when there aren’t enough trained Americans. The program is especially popular in the technology industry, where it draws the most workers from India.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/19/trump-blasts-foreign-worker-program-at-company-that-pays-below-average-wages-to-foreign-workers/

 

American Made

For $7,800.00 we can run an ad in the Washington Post for one year

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My thought is something like this:

Keep America At Work by ending the H-1B

Hire Americans instead of non-immigrant guest workers

Now, how do we pay for this?

I can chip in a hundred or two.

But this needs to be a clear message sent to Washington DC by Displaced Americans.

Will you help?

The smallest ad we can run is a 1.92” x 0.750” for a one column ad. The cost would be $295.32 per insertion, but if you commit to 52 weeks, we can offer it at $150 per insertion or $7,800 total. We can place your ad right next to business related editorial easily. The deadline to reserve space is Thursday (before the Sunday) and the creative deadline is Friday by COB. We can build the ad for you at no additional charge if you want.